tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 09 12:05:42 2001
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Re: Klingon WOTD: yergho (n)
: Klingon word: yergho
: Part of Speech: noun
: Definition: city wall
:
: Additional Notes:
: From Okrand, startrek.klingon, 12/7/98. From {yer} + {gho}.
Specifically, a {yergho} is "the wall around a walled city", derived from the
nouns {yer} "domain, holdings, territory" and {gho} "circle, hoop". Cf. also
the verb {DoQ} "claim (territory)".
For those interested, other architectural - *{qachQeD}? - terms from that same
st.klingon post include:
{chevwI' tlhoy'} "territorial wall". This is an external, free-standing wall
like the Berlin Wall, Hadrian's Wall in Britain, the Great Wall of China, etc.
In Klingon slang this is also known as a {pIn tlhoy'}.
{reD} "exterior wall"
{pa' reD} "interior face of exterior wall"
{tlhoy'} "wall, interior wall, interior face of exterior wall"
{beb} "roof"
{tlhoy' SaS} "ceiling/floor between stories" (lit. "horizontal wall")
{pa' beb} "ceiling" (lit. "room's roof")
Okrand explained the difference between {pa' beb} and {rav'eq} "ceiling" in an
article in HolQed 8.3:
"There are two special terms for the top of a room, or 'ceiling.'
{rav'eq} refers to the ceiling of any room (though, more narrowly,
it refers to the ceiling of a room that has a room above it, as
in a multistory structure); {pa' beb} refers specifically to the
ceiling of a room which is on the top (or only) story of a structure.
It is possible to use {'aqroS} to refer to a ceiling, through the
other two terms are more common."
I'm guessing that {tlhoy' SaS} may be a more general term, referring to the
slab separating two stories in a building. {rav} "floor" and {rav'eq}
"ceiling" seem to refer to the two faces of this slab, depending on whether
you're looking at it from the room above or the room below. {pa' beb} is a
specific type of {rav'eq}, while {beb} by itself refers to the same
architectural element viewed from outside the building.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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